News Roundup: Climate, energy, oil, gas

A grab bag of not so uplifting news from around the West

Climate change and its myriad effects wreak havoc on infrastructure of all kinds, but seem to reserve the harshest punishment for energy-related equipment and structures. Perhaps that has to do with the ubiquity of the equipment, the way pipelines and power lines are woven into the landscape like blood vessels and nerves in an organism. Drought and heat…